Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Purple Honeycreeper / Certiola de patas amarillas, Tucuso morado o Mielero cerúleo

Cyanerpes caeruleus

Description:

According to Wikipedia : "The Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. A few, possibly introduced birds have been recorded on Tobago. The species is a bird of northern South America, and besides the Amazon Basin and the Guianas, a coastal range occurs west of the Andes, including parts of southern Panama. In the south, its range extends to the extreme western Pantanal. Though it is most frequently seen in the lowlands up to 3,300 ft (1,000 m) ASL or so, it has been encountered as high as 7,500 ft (2,300 m) ASL. The Purple Honeycreeper is 4.5 in (11.5 cm) long, weighs 0.42 oz (12 g) and has a long black decurved bill. The male is purple with black wings, tail and belly, and bright yellow legs. Females and immatures have green upperparts, and green-streaked yellowish-buff underparts. The throat is cinnamon, and there is a blue moustachial stripe. The call of Purple Honeycreeper is a thin high-pitched zree."

Habitat:

Low montane forest to the coast in Ecuador

1 Species ID Suggestions

Liam
Liam 11 years ago
Purple Honeycreeper
Cyanerpes caeruleus BirdForum


Sign in to suggest organism ID

1 Comment

GustavoMorejon
GustavoMorejon 11 years ago

Thank you for the ID Liam.

GustavoMorejon
Spotted by
GustavoMorejon

Piñas, El Oro, Ecuador

Spotted on Aug 9, 2007
Submitted on Apr 21, 2013

Related Spottings

Red-legged Honeycreeper Red-legged honeycreeper Red-legged Honeycreeper Purple Honeycreeper

Nearby Spottings

Spotting Spotting Spotting Green-crowned Brilliant (female) / Brillante coroniverde o Diamante frentiverde
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team